Fake insurance claim case: Chennai court sentences cop, three others to imprisonment

CUDDALORE: A CBI court in Chennai has sentenced a police inspector in Cuddalore district and three others to one-year rigorous

imprisonment

for making a false claim to receive insurance amount in a motor accident

case

. Special judge (CBI) A Murugan imposed a fine of Rs 87,000 on the four.

The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) of the CBI filed a case against Puduchatiram police inspector G Kannadasan, Syed Mohammed, Mallika Banu, P Nagarajan and Khaleeja Bheevi.

The agency said Syed Mohammed had filed a false complaint with Neyveli police station claiming that his brother Mohamed Farook had been killed in an accident involving an auto rickshaw. Inquiries by the agency revealed that Farook died after falling off his two-wheeler and that no autorickshaw had been involved in the accident.

The special court convicted four of them and let off Khaleeja Bheevi for want of evidence.